Why Women Have Sex (55 page)

as a sexual stimulant,
245–47

Stress Inoculation Training and Prolonged Exposure,
228

submissive sex,
209–10

sugar-daddy relationships,
178–80

Sweden,
150

swinging,
113

symmetry, body,
7–8
,
10
,
17

Symons, Donald,
122
,
169

sympathetic nervous system (SNS),
241–42
,
246
,
247–48

sympathy sexual intercourse,
139–41
,
206

Symposium
(Plato),
66

Taita,
58

Talmud,
138

Taylor, Shelley,
60

television shows,
78–79

temporary wives,
174

tending instinct,
60

testosterone

masculine facial features and,
12–13

sexual desire and,
124–26
,
127
,
253

sexual fantasies and,
123

voice pitch and,
16

testosterone replacement therapy,
126

Thailand,
174

therapy after rape,
228–29

Thorazine,
130

Thornhill, Nancy,
232

Thornhill, Randy,
232

threesomes,
113
,
161–62
,
205

Thurber, James,
117

Toda tribe,
102

touch, sexual pleasure and,
29–31

triangular theory of love,
51–54

Trobriand women,
169–70

Tutanekai,
50

Tyler, Liv,
92

Tyler, Steven,
92

unwanted sexual intercourse

coercion and,
218–20

consensual

emotional responses from,
142–44

in long-term relationships,
117–21
,
136–39
,
141

out of sympathy,
139–41

nonconsensual (
see
rape
;
sexual abuse
)

Uriah,
93

uterus,
35
,
42
,
47

vagina

nerve endings in,
34

orgasm and,
41–42

sexual arousal of,
31
,
47

vaginal contractions,
37–38
,
48

vaginal lubrication,
31–32

vaginal photoplethysmograph,
32

Valium,
130

vasopressin,
69

Viagra,
32–33

Virgin Mary,
145

virginity,
145–52
,
167
,
176

visual stimulation,
173

voice pitch,
16–17

voles,
71–72

von Krafft-Ebing, Richard,
xiii

walking style, masculine,
18–19

wealth,
132

Wehr, Thomas,
249

weight gain,
131

Wellbutrin,
130

Whipple, Beverly,
238

White, E. B.,
117

Why God Wont’t Go Away
(Newbert and D’Aquili),
75

wife battering,
104
,
114

Williams, Robin,
22

Willis, Thomas,
237

Wilson, Margo,
232

Wiseman, Rosalind,
198

Witt, Diane,
70–71

Women’s Hearts
,
152

World War II,
231

writing interventions for rape victims,
228–29

Xanax,
130

Yanomamö,
188–89

Yllo, Kersti,
225

yohimbine plus L-arginine glutamate,
33

You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
(Phillips),
182

Yu, Zhang,
182

Zeki, Semir,
55–56

C
INDY
M. M
ESTON
is one of the world’s leading researchers on women’s sexuality and a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory, a cutting-edge lab on women’s sexual experience. D
AVID
M. Buss, one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of several books, including
The Evolution of Desire and The Dangerous Passion
. Their jointly authored article “Why Humans Have Sex” garnered international attention when it was published in the
Archives of Sexual Behavior
.